George Pearkes

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Buying Facebook when Twitter IPO'd (even as the little blue bird initially soared over 150% from IPO) has been a fantastic trade, with a grinding, consistent rally over the past 3.5 years. It seems, that when new social media IPOs hit the street, investors are best served by looking at who they compete with rather than the new company!feedback

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This page is completely dedicated to what George Pearkes has to say. All of George Pearkes’s quotes are organized here by date and topic. The most recent quote attributed to George Pearkes came from an article called This chart reveals economists may be overestimating the 'Trump bump': “When Trump was elected we did see another big tick up in U.S. confidence indices, business, consumer whatever, and the way it looked in the data was that everyone thought the economy was going to be great, but it was that a chunk of people thought the economy was going to be terrible and then thought the economy was going to pretty good.”.

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When Trump was elected we did see another big tick up in U.S. confidence indices, business, consumer whatever, and the way it looked in the data was that everyone thought the economy was going to be great, but it was that a chunk of people thought the economy was going to be terrible and then thought the economy was going to pretty good.feedback

The Trump [policies] returned a part of the population to a normal level of confidence and that helped the indices explode higher. The point is they [economists] missed the impact of Trump and they brought their estimates in line, and they caught up to where the real data is at, and we'll see what happens.feedback

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When the book is closed on retail this quarter, we're going to have two different narratives: there are the companies that Amazon can crush and the companies that Amazon should admire or perhaps even fear.

The president's address to the leaders of more than 50 Arab and Muslim nations was a historic turning point that people will be talking about for many years to come. He did exactly as he promised in his inaugural address: united the civilized world in the fight against terrorism and extremism.